Twins 4, Tigers 5: A Cold, Sloppy Team Loses a Cold, Sloppy Game

When does football season start?

That third inning can kiss my ass

1 hour ago, USAFChief said:

Another game, another series of senseless manager moves.

Nobody can make players get hits. Or catch simple long hops with approximately 15 seconds to tag the runner out. 

But Rocco's glaring mistakes are done on purpose. 

I've been beating on that drum for years. But there are always Baldelli apologists and they come out in groves.

20 minutes ago, FilthyMogwai said:

I've been beating on that drum for years. But there are always Baldelli apologists and they come out in droves.

8 minutes ago, wabene said:

 

Weak, pathetic, grammar police. How petty of you. 

Yikes... I'm moving toward the indifference phase with this season at an alarming rate....

10 seasons later Byron Buxton looks like the same player that debuted who didn't have a clue of how to hit ML pitching. 4 more seasons to go of watching him regress and taking up a large portion of payroll.

Bad game, same result, no end in sight. Same old, same old. Buxton needs to be sent to StP to figure out wtf he's doing...or trying to do. 

7 hours ago, mikelink45 said:

I have never cared about the velocity of hit balls

I'm with you on that one. Possibly the most useless of all the new so-called "advanced" stats that are flying around all too often in posts and articles. 

7 hours ago, FilthyMogwai said:

Weak, pathetic, grammar police. How petty of you. 

Sadly the police get little love these days.

I felt sorry for Larnach being called up w/o ample time to heat up but he came through tonight. Wish for continued success for him. This game had to be & should have been won. Hitting & pitching was adequate to win the game but what really lost the game was the defense. GBs bled through the INF mainly because as always SS & 1B shade too much towards 2B to cover for Julien so GBs get through between Santana & 1B and between SS & 3B. And when Santana has to hold the runner on 1B, GBs bleed through 2B & 1B. On a wet field the throw home needed to be on the fly and Julien had plenty of time to make a good throw but he didn't. To blame Vazquez for the ball skidding past on a wet field is pretty lame.

30 minutes ago, wabene said:

Sadly the police get little love these days.

I dunno....Roxanne is still a classic.

9 hours ago, darwin22 said:

When does football season start?

Be careful what you wish for.

9 hours ago, darwin22 said:

When does football season start?

The excuses keep piling up.  Bad luck?  Crummy weather? Weak hits by opponents.  Keep in mind the Twins were gifted 2 runs by Tigers mis-playing them.  If Baldelli had any guts he would have benched Buxton after he stood at home plate watching his fly ball being mis- played then almost getting thrown out at home.  Continually pinch hitting for Kiriloff because of him maybe having to face a left handed pitcher is getting old.  Especially when you have a right handed stiff pinch hitting for him.  Kiriloff is your best hitter in the lineup at the moment.  Analytics are ok but if your players can't perform then you need to manage the game.  Plus we keep getting told it's early.  We will be fine like last year.  I'm not buying it.  But I will say this.  We are in the beginning of a time where we will play the White Sox 7 times in 10 days.  Yes the lowly 3-16 Sox.  They should win most if not all of those games.  Then they will proclaim how great they are playing.  If they are still playing poorly at the end of that stretch then it's time to dump Baldelli and the coaching staff.

32 minutes ago, Karbo said:

Rocco still can't manage a bullpen.

Your sentence is too long.... It should be............. Rocco still can't manage.

7 minutes ago, JD-TWINS said:

How did the Manager lose the game?……,catch the ball in the 1st at home………Thielbar needs to get 3 outs …………he can’t hit FOR them…….their pitcher had 8K’s in the middle of the 4th inning - terrible hitting. Neither Kirilloff nor Larnach can ground out to 2B to score a run - both K - pathetic. ……Santana - Castro should bunt every other time they come up because they can’t hit………Castro has speed and the 3rd baseman was shifted to SS (3 AB’s) - BUNT!!!!

Don't see, didn’t see how managing has any part of the debacle.

Don’t you feel his pinch hitting is not logical?  

A real manager would have told Buxton to take a seat for not running.The way the ball came off the wall he may of gotten a inside the park HR.

11 minutes ago, Whitey333 said:

If they are still playing poorly at the end of that stretch then it's time to dump Baldelli and the coaching staff.

Unfortunately, they can play poorly and still beat the WhiteSox, so nothing will change.